Mamie Gummer
Mamie Gummer
Mary Willa "Mamie" Gummer is an American actress. She starred in the title role of the CW series Emily Owens, M.D., and played the recurring role of Nancy Crozier on The Good Wife. She has also appeared in the films Evening, Side Effects, Cake, and Ricki and the Flash. She was nominated for the 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for the original production of Ugly Lies the Bone...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth3 August 1983
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.
If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
I'd like to keep exploring comedy. I didn't necessarily think of myself as a comedic actress, but it's a lot of fun.
You do what you can. You have to leave room to grow and make mistakes.
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.
I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.